Two of the top military leaders of the coup were trained at the School of Americas: Gen. Vasquez and air force head Gen. Suazo.
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--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
> From: Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Honduras--The Big Lie
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 9:08 PM
>
>
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara
> > <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> The WSJ reports were especially sympathetic to the
> coup
> >> plotters, flagrantly so.
> >
> >
> > It'd be worth a raised eyebrow if they weren't,
> wouldn't it?
>
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>
> What is further annoying is that the coup provided exactly
> this explanation for
> taking state power. So they pre-designed the propaganda
> campaign and got
> the supreme court cronies to first opine the referrendum
> was unconstitutional. When
> Zelaya went ahead and ordered the military to distribute
> the ballots, the generals refused
> So he fired the top general.. The court found the firing
> unconstitutional and order the military to
> take power.
>
> It's all very brilliant in its legalistic checkmate. The
> necons at WSJ and punditry circuits
> must have loved this. In fact as I was thinking about it, I
> even suspected some neocon think
> tank deamed up the chess moves. It's straight out of
> Machiavelli.. Then I thought, hell the Honduran elite are
> past masters at this sort of shit, half of them no doubt
> trained at the
> School of the Americas, taking CIA seminars, etc.
>
> CG
>
>
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